Abstract
The Art Sound Environment (ASE) project aims to analyze the relationship between art, sound and landscape in Italian artistic research from the 1960s to the present, with particular attention to processual, installation and participatory interventions, realized outdoors, often in decentralized, peripheral and marginal places of the peninsula. Central themes of the contemporary debate will be considered as a theoretical and methodological perspective of comparison and analysis: the politics of cultural decentralization, the "third landscape" (Clément 2005), sustainability (Ferrari, La Vergata 2009), relational aesthetics (Bourriaud 2010), immersivity in visual studies (Pinotti 2021), ecofeminism and practices of care (Warren 1990; Mies, Shiva 1993; Cima, Marcomin, 2017; Zamboni 2020), posthuman ecologies (Braidotti, Bignall 2018), marginality as a cultural and creative value (Hooks 2020; Di Marino 2021), and the deconstruction of colonial stereotypes, which not only concern relations with non-Western civilizations but also touch on areas of the South and the provinces in general (Faeta 2003). In this vision of analysis and research, linguistic contamination opens up new interstitial spaces of inquiry and nonlinear historicization that disrupt the canon of the "grand narrative" progressive, central, and dominant. The concepts of "centre" and "periphery" turn out to be increasingly unstable and demand to be rethought today (Tassone, 2018). The periphery is not always necessarily willing to flatten itself on the centre but responds to it through resistances that produce unsuspected graft (Castelnuovo, Ginzburg 2019). Focusing on the aural dimension, in particular, amounts to exploring a new epistemological model (Midolo 2007), a cultural paradigm within which sound is configured as a device capable of redesigning rural areas, frontier zones and geographies emerging from the post-global context (Pisano 2017). The project aims to map outdoor environmental and sound art interventions carried out on the Italian territory and to produce a multimedia archive that will gather documentary materials (textual, visual and sound) related to these interventions. This archive will facilitate and expedite research by that large and growing part of the scientific community interested in such issues from multiple perspectives: art history, sociology, anthropology, musicology, and cognitive science. Through practices at the centre of the contemporary curatorial debate, the collected materials will flow into exhibition projects that will allow the dissemination of research in different scientific and popular contexts. The collaboration with some museums and research centres reported in the project will allow organizing moments of sharing research through conferences, talks, screenings, publications and an exhibition.
Dettagli del progetto
Responsabile scientifico: Pasquale Fameli
Strutture Unibo coinvolte:
Dipartimento delle Arti
Coordinatore:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna(Italy)
Contributo totale di progetto: Euro (EUR) 223.186,00
Contributo totale Unibo: Euro (EUR) 104.000,00
Durata del progetto in mesi: 24
Data di inizio
30/11/2023
Data di fine:
28/02/2026
